Thad McCotter: “This is not a nostalgic ‘anti-colonial uprising’ from within”
By Sissy Willis of sisu
"Your Cairo statement rings true. Am I right here," we twittered Rep. Thad McCotter this afternoon, linking our own tweet (above), a layman's take on the ongoing Middle East turmoil based upon keeping our virtual ear to the ground in the last period of time:
This is what's really happening. Muslim Brotherhood poised to co-opt restless populations thoughout Middle East.
"Yes, you are right," McCotter direct-messaged back. We're inclined to take the Michigan Congressman's well-considered assessments seriously. Any politician who can hold his own on Greg Gutfeld's transcendent, "take no prisoners" Red Eye on Fox in the wee hours is top salesman in the global marketplace of ideas. A few excerpts from McCotter's "Statement on Egyptian Crisis: America Must Stand with Her Ally Egypt" — a counterpoint to the standard-issue "let my people go" narrative spin that seems to be dominating the airwaves — and then, as might be expected, a few thoughts of our own …
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worth keeping an eye on the muslim brotherhood, but they aren’t going to be able to put a lid on how liberalized egypt has become, relative to other arab countries.
muslim brotherhood is actually going to suffer if mubarek leaves. they were developing the ability to galvanize support for their ability to oppose the regime.
mubarek leaves, and they go from their monopoly of their current ‘relative’ popularity, to fighting it out in govt for parliment seats.
did i mention that women can vote?
at best mb could pull in 40% of the country, but NEVER a majority.
for them to ‘risk’ violence, allowing a military, sitting on the sideline, to wipe them out, when they have 20% of the parliment seats and a substantial bloc in the pending new govt, they’d have to be certain of success.
i think even they know that they are going to have to play politics, instead of war.
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”
-donald rumsfeld.
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while i imagine the focus of discussion will be about how the ‘rolling dice’ will come up, i modestly offer, imho, a great deal of credit must be given to military investment that was made in egypt, for decades.
that we had placed bets long ago, fostering a close relationship with the egyptian miitary, without any specific knowledge of when, if ever, the bet pays off, seems to be especially vindicated.
Time to open Anwar, because the Suez Canal will be controlled by the deranged muzzies. If Anwar is open oil prices will tumble and our unemployment rate will as well. Hey Oshithead, Drill Baby Drill. When we start using our natural resources the world will begin healing.
“i think even they know that they are going to have to play politics, instead of war.”
Egypt is their home base, but hardly their focus. Nominal muslims put up a fight to protect the Copts after the fact, but Islamists have cowed them everywhere they chose.
Turkey is a case in point, the secular Army is enduring their own purge.